Check-operated feeder for vending-machines and the like.



No. 889,628. PATENTED JUNE '2, 1908.

H. MARGOLIS.

CHECK OPERATED FEEDER FDR VENDING MACHINES AND THE LIKE.

v APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1907.

I'IIE NORRIS PETER! ca. WASHINGTON, n. c.

HARRY MARGOLIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOISv CHECK-OPERATED FEEDER FOR VENDING--MACHINES AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Application filed April 11, 1907. Serial No. 367,648.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY MARGOLIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Operated Feeders for Vending-Machines and the Like; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to Which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in check operated feeders for vending machinesv and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character by means of which a vending machine or check operated telephone may be prevented from being operated by unauthorized parties.

A further object is to provide checks so constructed and arranged as to operate only the machine for which they are manufactured.

With these objects in View, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a check operated telephone box and check slot, showing the pivotally mounted check baffle arranged therein; Fig. 2 is a vertical, sectional view of the same, showing a check engaged with the bafiie; Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the manner in which the check is turned to permit the same to pass the baflle and enter the feed chute; Fig. 4 is a detail view of a check.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the drawing, 1 denotes a portion of a telephone box or stand, having arranged therein a check feed chute, 2, which communicates at its up er end with a check slot, 3, formed in the s1 e of the box, as shown- In the upper end of the chute, 2, adjacent to the slot, 3, is arranged a bafiie, 4, said baflie being here shown in the form of an 0 en rectangular frame which is Ipivoted mi way between its ends upon a bo t or pin, 5, arranged across the chute 2 and having its ends mounted in the side walls of the same.

When the feed chute is provided with a baffle constructed and arran ed as herein shown and described, a specially constructed check must be provided to pass said baflie plate to operate the mechanism of the machine. In Fi s. 2, 3 and 4, is shown a form of check, 6, whidli is adapted to be engaged with the bafiie, 4, and to turn with the same so as to permit of the passage of the check into the feed chute, 2. The check 6 is shown as being provided in one side with a series of inwardly projecting notches, or recesses, 7, which are adapted to be engaged with the opposite ends of the baffle frame, 4, and with the bolt or pin, 5, said notches allowing the check to be so engaged with the bafiie frame that the latter may be turned by the check and said check thus permitted to pass through the slot, 3.

While I have shown and described the baffle, 4, in the form of a rectangular pivotally mounted frame, it is obvious that said baflie may be constructed in a variety of forms, and checks provided to correspond therewith, so that the check adapted for one form of baffle will not operate a different form of baffle of another machine.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention may be readily understood with out requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportions and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificin any of the advanta es of this invention, as efined in the appen ed claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. In a device of the class described, a casing, a chute therein, a baflie pivotally arranged in said chute, and a check having a plurality of slots to engage diflerent parts of the baffle and to be passed by the same into the chute.

2. A check operated feeder for vending machines and the like, comprising a fee chute, a ivot bolt arranged in said chute, a

.rectangu ar bafl'le frame pivotally mounted midway between its ends on said bolt to obstruct the feed slot at the up er end of said chute, a check having forme therein a plurality of notches ada ted to be engaged with my hand in presence of two subscribing Witthe ends1 of said ba e frame an Wit% tlhe nesses.

ivot b0 t to turn thereon with said a e ame and thereby pass through the slot and HARRY MARGOLIS 5 into the feed chute, substantially as dei Witnesses:

scribed. HENRY D. BEAM,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set BERNARD MARGOLIS. 

